Tag: Studio Ghibli

Beauty in Simplicity – The Red Turtle (DVD Review)

Posted by - September 29, 2017
With such great titles as Spirited Away, The Wind Rises and Ponyo, the Studio Ghibli stable has a pretty high success rate, to the point that with every film many people ask “how will they top this?”. But one thing the animation studio are not afraid of is taking risks. So it is no surprise

Good Things Come in Small Packages – The Tale of Princess Kaguya (DVD Review)

Posted by - July 10, 2015
Over the last thirty years, Japan’s Studio Ghibli has introduced audiences to an intricate world of sublime animation and bizarre tales from the creative minds of some of Asia’s finest storytellers. The latest entry into the Ghibli oeuvre is a delightful adaptation of the 10th Century folk story The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, brought to glorious life